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imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wait is the cat with nine lives trope an American thing???

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  • imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    no, cata having 9 lives is pretty popular around the wotld, but so are 6 and 7

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  • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Some places the cat has 6 lives. In Canada the cat has 12 lives, each life is represented by an easter egg because the Canadian easter bunny is a cat. A cat named bunny.

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    • Bonsoir@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Where in Canada?

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      • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is in Bizarro Canada.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How high was the person that decided this, and how much higher were the people who agreed ‘a bunny, that is a cat, named bunny… yes’?

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  • Deebster@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    When Shakespeare mentioned it in Romeo and Juliet it was already old. The proverb “a cat has nine lives, for three he plays, for three he strays, and for three he stays” is older than the USA. Nine is often seen as an magic/auspicious number in Anglo-Saxon culture, which the US is very influenced by.

    The multiple lives thing goes back to the ancient Egyptians, who believed cats were divine creatures and were incarnations of the goddess Bastet (who had the power to reincarnate herself nine times). The Bastet link makes me think that nine is the “right” number of lives.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I assume it’s a Salam Mass thing.

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